Thursday, 22 August 2013
Did you ever get an email and really wondered where it came from? Who sent it? How could they have known who you are? Surprisingly a lot of that information can be from from the email header, or by using info from the email header to do some detective work.
The header is a part of the email message that most people never even see. It contains a lot of data that seems like gobbledygook to the average computer user, so as email use became a daily tool in everyone’s life, email clients started to hide this information out of convenience for you. These days, it can even be a bit troublesome to unhide the header, even for those who know it is there. There are so many different email clients out there, both desktop and web-based, that to cover how to unhide the email header could end up being a small book. Today, we’re just going to focus on how to unhide the header in Gmail, and then look at what we can glean from the header.
